All Chicago schools get the same amount of money per student, as I assume Detroit schools do. And there are some Chicago schools that do much better than others as I am sure is also the case with Detroit.
The big difference is in the students. In middle class households the kids generally have a stable family and they can trust the police and their neighbors and if there is some kind of wrong they can go to the appropriate source and have it redressed. Poor kids often don't have stable parents and they can't necessarily trust the police and they have to fight for everything they get or want. That is the hardest problem teaching those kids, not that they fight the teacher but that they fight each other, all the time, I remember taking a bunch of kindergarten kids in Cabrini Green down to the playground and fights broke out before we even got outside.
The thing is middle class kids can expect fairness in their doings and if they behave well generally people will treat them well. If they behave that way in the ghetto everything they have will be taken from them. The teacher tells them not to fight if they are wronged, but the parents tell them fight for everything, and sadly the parents are right.
I wish when Beagles posted a link he would add what the link is about, because if it's something I know already it's annoying. I had read the story about that Norwegian guy wanting Trump to get the Nobel prize maybe five times before I clicked on the link and saw it again.
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